Defense Minister Michael Fallon has confirmed that the U.K. will order two Airbus Defense and Space Zephyr 8 solar-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance UAVs.
NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft carried out a successful 35-min. trajectory adjustment maneuver on Feb. 3, the first of two needed to keep the probe on course for a July 4 arrival at the Solar System’s largest planet.
The aviation-centric New Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 6 USS America may create problems for U.S. Marines to move their forces ashore as needed, and the U.S. Navy and Marines are working on new tactics to do the job, a report says.
China’s missiles may get the headlines, but the People’s Liberation Army’s electronic warfare capabilities may warrant the biggest concern, the Center for Strategic and International Studies says in a recent report.
India is preparing to conduct the second canister-based trial of the nuclear-capable Agni-V missile by the end of this month, a government official says.
The European Union launched the EU Naval Force's 'operation Atalanta' in December 2008 as part of its comprehensive approach to Somalia. Dave Oliver reports from Djibouti on its progress to date.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter previewed the fiscal 2017 U.S. defense budget: The $582.7 billion top line will conform to last fall’s bipartisan budget agreement but will also be a “major inflection point” in terms of long-term re-equipment of the force.
Appointment of a successor to Pentagon director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E) Michael Gilmore will spark a lobbying war in Washington, fueled by Gilmore’s harsh criticism of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, according to defense analyst Pierre Sprey and Tom Christie, the Pentagon’s first DOT&E.
Demand for a commercial human facility with International Space Station research capabilities is not a foregone conclusion, and may develop only slowly if at all as the station approaches the end of its service life in 2024 or later, academics and engineers say.
Cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko and Sergey Volkov retrieved, deployed and conducted experiments outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station during a Feb. 3 spacewalk.
The critical pressure vessel for the Orion capsule has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for testing leading up to its use on the first uncrewed flight test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket in late 2018.
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson is visiting India through Feb. 6 to help deepen maritime partnerships between the two countries, Navy officials say.
The Taiwan Aviation Safety Council (ASC) successfully deployed a UAV as part of its investigation into the July 23, 2014 crash of a TransAsia Airways ATR-72-500 on the island of Hoko, west of Taiwan.
NASA space shuttle-era astronauts Brian Duffy and Dr. Scott Parazynski will enter the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame during May 13-14 ceremonies at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near Cape Canaveral.
SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. (SJC) has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for the JCSAT-17 telecommunications satellite that will be based on the updated A2100 spacecraft bus.
The U.S. Navy recently awarded a follow-on, omnibus contract to General Dynamics Mission Systems that continues a broad scope of work for fire control systems and subsystems aboard the U.S. Navy’s and U.K. Royal Navy’s nuclear ballistic-missile submarines (SSBN),
Luxembourg aims to become a hub of European space exploration under a new government-backed initiative that will promote the mining of minerals from asteroids and other near Earth objects.
The burgeoning space economy needs government regulation before it spins out of control, a young conservative House Republican congressman urged space-industry representatives Feb. 2.
The new U.S. defense budget to be published Feb. 9 will include initial development of an “arsenal plane” which would operate in conjunction with Lockheed Martin F-22s and F-35s and “act as a very large magazine,” according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
